Three words for an ambition: “France green nation”. Friday, October 21, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, was to, from the urban farm of La Recyclerie, in Paris, reveal the name intended to coat the vision of ecology carried by her government. The French version of the European “Green Deal”, we are enthusiastic about at Matignon.
The. in guise of “steering wheel” intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, it is rather a discourse on method. The hope of involving all of society will be held in the new government slogan, “Act, mobilize, accelerate”, in order to do more for the climate in eight years than all that France has accomplished in thirty-two years. All without discounting the motto of sobriety pronounced two weeks ago – “I lower, I turn off, I shift” – to spend the winter.
Environmental planning officer Elisabeth Borne had high expectations after repeatedly stating that the “ecological revolution” would be “Radical”. At the risk of creating disappointment, even an habituation to repeated promises without rapid realization. On Friday, she was to detail how to enact the roadmaps and the timetable imposed on the ministries to allow France to become, as Emmanuel Macron had announced from Marseille in April, “a great ecological nation”.
This trajectory, piloted by Matignon, interweaves all sectors – transport, housing, agriculture… – like a game of Mikado, in which the executive has identified twenty-two transversal projects to get out of the contradictory injunctions which have so far hit the cause. ecological. “It’s like a mixing board”, illustrates a Matignon adviser, mimicking push buttons. A planning “not like in the Soviet Union, well not quite”, he jokes, emphasizing that each minister will be responsible and accountable for achieving his objectives. A meeting clause is planned for the end of the year.
Train society, because the state cannot do everything
No sensational announcements or big night: the government’s ambition is to implement the measures enshrined in the law, already judged “very biting”such as the ban on thermal cars in 2035, the objective of eliminating single-use plastics or the ban on renting thermal colanders in 2038. What to accompany decisions already taken, such as the “zero net artificialisation” of soil or the production of 2 million electric cars in 2050.
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